The Starbucks case demonstrates that a large corporation can effectively bust a union with time, by dithering over details and exhausting legal appeals.
Texas is "an unsafe state [for workers] because enforcement has been dialed back, regulations have been dialed back," Puente said. "And when you're trying to encourage businesses to come to your state, this is not a good look."
Officers—recently elected on promises of greater transparency and militancy, in the union’s first-ever direct election for top posts—established what could become a new tradition.
What Oakland’s teachers union reveals about labor strikes in 2023: "Common good" bargaining--focusing not only on pay and benefits but also issues like reparations, housing, and transportation--is offering a fresh strategy for other unions.
L.A. was the city where the ethnicity and ideology of union leadership came to reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Federation of Labor.
Amazon delivery drivers, employed by Amazon contractors, joined the Teamsters and won big gains. Amazon is fighting back, so workers are stepping up their struggle.
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More than a year after the Amazon Labor Union’s landmark victory at a Staten Island warehouse, Amazon still refuses to bargain with the union. Meanwhile, a reform caucus is pushing for the ALU to hold leadership elections.
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
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